Author: Lauren Clark

It seems this time of year, you can’t walk a few days across the calendar without tripping over a nation’s independence day, or republic day, or declaration of something or other. Obviously these are great strides for that nation and Read More

Commonly called the Rio Earth Summit, June 20 to the 22 holds the anniversary of a great stride towards environmental policy. The United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED), additionally known as the Rio Conference, was a major Read More

Russia has been in the news lately, and will continue to be as its version of Independence Day is celebrated on June 12th this year. Russia Day, the national holiday of the Russian Federation, has been celebrated since 1992. The Read More

Known as Festa della Repubblica in Italian, Italy’s Republic Day is celebrated on the second day of June. This day commemorates the Italian institutional referendum of 1946 when the entire Italian population was summoned through universal suffrage to decide Read More

Children’s Day is celebrated on various days in various places across the world, to honor children. Parents each get their own day celebrated as Father’s Day, coming up mid-June, and Mother’s Day, just this past month as well as Parent’s Read More

Born on June 28th 1908, the infinity famous English novelist Ian Fleming wrote the many James Bond sultry spy novels now renewed in fame by more recent movies using the new blond Bond, Daniel Craig. Author, journalist, and Naval Intelligence Read More

No, that’s not a type of egg and oil based condiment recipe though it sounds delicious. Cinco de Mayo is the lively Mexican holiday on the 5th of May (cinco meaning “five” in Spanish. It marks the day in 1862 Read More

Earth Day on April 22nd: finally, a holiday for everyone; the entire globe. Or at least the part of it with concern about, well… the globe. Until we have a Solar-system or Universe Day, Earth Day is the one time Read More

April 18th marks the birthday of Brazilian author Monteiro Lobato, born 1882 in Taubaté, Brazil. In his 66 years he became famous as a writer and publisher, and an initiator of the Modernist movement sweeping Brazilian literature of the early Read More

April 15th marked the 100 year anniversary of the first and only voyage of the RMS Titanic. A ship with dreams bigger than she could handle, the Titanic really needs no introduction. No other ship has had such fame through Read More

One of my biggest complaints with CDs isn’t a fault in the media, it is the fault of the idiots who master them. It seems there is but one goal for them: to ruin my hearing. Great sound and great Read More

You just released your review of the iPhone 5 a full week before it is officially on sale, because an Apple Employee left it on your night stand, and you’d rather be famous, than worry about getting a second date. Read More